Flows in Value Chains

Achieving the goals of enterprises and their survival in market conditions is achieved through implementation of supply chain management concepts, values, and demands focused on managing resource flows to create and deliver value to their end users. The subject of the research is relationship between consumers and suppliers as links in the supply chain that form and transform flows of values, demands, products and/or services, as well as novelty in a competitive environment. The objectives of the research are to clarify and supplement the theory and methodology of managing flows of values, demands, products and/ or services, as well as novelties while introducing and implementing management concepts for linearly ordered enterprises or chains. The tasks of the research are to clarify interrelationship of objects, management components, and types of flows; to identify the roles of the consumer and supplier as sources of flows in supply chains; to develop classification of flows considering the objects of the concepts of chain management; to create a form of a flow map regarding flows in supply chains. Research has used the methods of classification, analysis and synthesis, induction, and deduction, and the tools of binary matrices developed based on relevant qualitative characteristics of the objects under the study. The results of the research make it possible to clarify and supplement provisions regarding supply, value and demand chain management based on a systematic approach; to develop practical recommendations to reduce lost profits when managing flows in supply chains; to create prerequisites for more efficient value creation and its supply.